CVT NewsletterISSUE 46, July 2019

QUALITY ASSURANCE

From 5th June to 10th July 2019, electrician expert Mr. Luca Manale was supporting and advising all electrician teach-ers helping them design the curriculum for the new class. He also helped and supported in the area of electrical safe-ty and fault finding and cooperated the IT network instal-lation for the PTC extension and data management system for the new server of CVT Myanmar.

Electrician Expert Mission

Quality Assurance

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Professional & SocialActivities

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Apprentice/ CompanyVoice

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Strengthening CVT Community

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National Skills Standards Authority (NSSA) Inspection on Professional Level and Renewal as Assessment Center

Preparing New Curriculum Design for the New Class of the Electrician Profession

“I feel strongly that we have to have an education system that starts with preschool and goes through college. That’s why I want more technical education in high schools and in community colleges, real apprenticeships to prepare young people for the jobs of the future. “

-Hillary Clinton

16 apprentices from the cabinet maker profession con-ducted the NSSA (National Skills Standards Authority) level (1) on 15th June, and they all finished successfully. Also, on 21st June, an assessor from the NSSA confirmed the renewal of CVT Myanmar as assessment center for the electrician profession at NSSA level (1) and (2) at the new address.

According to the implementation of CVT Myanmar’s next five-year strategic plan, the curricula of all vocational training classes will be redesigned and restructured in 2019-2020 and in January 2020, a new class (short term – 9 weeks) of elec-tricians will open. The candidates need to be at least 16 years old with a high school level education but do not need any working experience like the current apprenticeship program. They can learn theory and gain practical experience at the same time and a training fee will be charged. After completion of the training, the students can continue to learn taking advanced and specialized courses in the future.

Practical Training Course (PTC) of CVT Myanmar

Electrician Practical Training Course:The electrician ap-prentices from the 14th batch conducted PTC 2 from 3rd June to 28th June 2019 and practiced grounding and pro-tection systems for houses, installation of main DB, light-ing installation, work reports, measuring techniques, DOL starters for motor control and so on.

PROFESSIONAL AND SOCIAL ACTIVITIES

Opening of New Training Class of Initial Intensive Course for Hotel & Gastronomy

Certification Event for Short Vocational 2-Month Electrical Training

We want everyone to live in a healthy world with green nature. Trees are very important for our health in order to reduce heat and to improve air quality and to filter harmful dust. CVT Myanmar understands trees play a vital role in our country and community. Thus, CVT Myanmar invited the agriculturist Dr. Than Than Sein from the Institute of Environment, Re-sources and Development Organization to give a speech about environmental issues to all CVT apprentices on 18th July 2019. CVT Myanmar invited the Parliament Member of Thingangyun, U Nay Phone Latt, agriculturists and guests, donors of the plants and trees, staff, teachers and apprentices from CVT Myanmar. A total of 300 people participated in this cere-mony and at least 250 shady trees and flowering plants were planted. The management team of CVT Myanmar would like to thank everybody who took part in this event.

Metal Worker Practical Training Course: The metal worker apprentices (MW-MSP 9 PTC) conducted practical training from 24th June 2019 to 5th July 2019 on the subject of bench work (sawing, filing, drawing, grinding, marking out, threading, etc.) and welding (arc welding, gas welding (oxy-acetylene, TIG, MIG, gas cutting, etc.) and product making (bench work product & welding product). In addition, the metal workers (MW-17) will conduct a practical 2-week training from 31st July and will practice the subject of machining, welding and foundry.

With regard to the new curriculum of the initial intensive course for the Hotel & Gastronomy class 2019-2020, a written and oral test was conducted on 3rd July 2019 and 31 candidates passed the exam. On 15th July 2019, the class started with those candidates accompanied by their parents or guardians. After the initial in-tensive course of two months, the candidates will conduct an on-the-job training in their respective field for 6 months. They will get a certificate after passing the exams (practical and theory).

CVT Myanmar in conjunction with New Humanity Myanmar offered a two-month basic electrician course for the youth at Nget Aw San Boy’s School, Kaw Hmue, which is under the management of the Ministry of Social Welfare Relief and Reset-tlement. The certification ceremony was held on 17th July 2019 and all 30 candidates attended. The headmaster of Nget Aw San Boy’s School as well as authorized persons from CVT Myanmar and New Humanity Myanmar were attending and handed the certificates to the students. Afterwards, one of the students gave an acceptance speech and the event ended successfully. This project aimed to provide vocational training for 120 candidates throughout the whole year.

Waso Robe Offering Ceremony

Like every year, CVT Myanmar organized a Waso Robe offering ceremony, which was held on 18th July 2019 under the lead of CVT Myanmar’s management team and all the teachers and staff attended the ceremony, donated robes and offered drinks and meals to the monks. In this ceremony, Waso Robes and other offerto-ries were donated to the monks. The ceremony ended with the monks preaching and dedicating their merits (saying Sadhu) to all world beings.

Tree Planting Ceremony

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APPRENTICE / TRAINING COMPANY VOICES

STRENGTHENING CVT COMMUNITY

The Voice from a Training Company

Activities of Young Entrepreneurs for Myanmar (YE4M) Program

MoU Signed with Myanmar Jardine Schindler Limited

Batch 19 of the Entrepreneurship Course with over 20 candidates started at the new school of CVT Myanmar on 6th July 2019. In this course, candidates learn essential management and business skills enabling them to successfully lead an SME or to start their own business. The course instructors are experienced local and internation-al teachers as well as successful business people. A major aim of this course is to generate young Myanmar entrepreneurs who can also work internationally.

Our factory has sent apprentices to CVT Myanmar every year. We see many benefits not only for the factory but also for the apprentices. After finishing the training, their skills and ideas are better than before the training. They follow the rules and work more disciplined than before and they are more aware of and understand safety issues in the workplace as well. In addition, they are very good at social communication and have a leadership mind-set. Because of those things, we are confident to appoint various tasks to them and we will continue to send apprentices to CVT in the future and we thank CVT Myanmar.

U Hone KyiDeputy Mechanical Engineer

Myanmar Locomotive Factory

My name is Mg Aung Zaw Nyunt; I am attending the metal worker course Batch 14. I am very pleased to attend this course. With a certificate from CVT, I no longer have to think about going abroad for work. A certificate is important to find a job but the more important thing is to under-stand the nature of your work and to know what you have to do. Before I attended CVT Myanmar, I was working as a trainee under the supervision of a mechanical engineer and I could only learn practical but no theoretical skills there. Before joining CVT Myanmar, I couldn’t read the drawing samples I received from customers. Now after attending CVT, I can clearly understand those draw-ings. I am very satisfied because we do not only get vocational skills but also learn about safety and many other things. Actually, CVT is not only preparing us to be skillful workers but also teaches us how to handle problems which we are facing in our daily lives, how to be a better follower and a good leader. If we want to start a business, we learn how to develop a strategic plan for the business we want to start. If we want to produce a new product, we learn what to consider and to do first and how to improve our personal skills, like how to behave in society and the community and so on. Therefore, I am very pleased and thank all the teachers from CVT and CVT Myanmar. Aung Zaw Nyunt

From Batch 14 Tun Mechanical

Voice from an Apprentice

For the school year 2019 - 2020, U Pyae Phyo Aung (Head of Human Re-source Management), U Khin Maung Shwe (Training Manager) from Myan-mar Jardine Schindler, U Kyaw Kyaw Oo (Head of Vocational Training), and Daw Thway Thway Maung (Head of Partnership & Communication) from CVT Myanmar signed the MoU for the cooperation on a Schindler-CVT Cer-tification Program on 17th July 2019. According to that agreement, the training will be a 2-year program and start with fifteen apprentices on 4th September 2019.